What should patients with prostate cancer eat?

Prostate cancer is a very troubling disease for modern men. This disease can cause great distress to men's body and mind. So when we encounter this disease, we must pay attention to taking good care of our bodies. So let's find out what should patients with prostate cancer eat?

1. Warm and cool balance is the most important principle in diet

Our body surface is stable at about 37 degrees. If it exceeds this temperature, it is fever, and if it is lower than this temperature, it is malnutrition. Therefore, in addition to living in a relatively warm and cool environment, humans also need to consume warm and cool balanced foods to maintain the body's warm and cool balance. Prostate cancer patients are mostly damp-heat, qi deficiency, and blood stasis. Therefore, they should eat some cool but high-protein foods, such as: vegetables: spinach, cabbage, lettuce, bean sprouts, lentils, celery, bamboo shoots, cucumbers, eggplants, winter melons, day lilies, seaweed, kelp, etc.; fruits: pears, watermelons, bananas, oranges, grapefruits, persimmons. Barley, mung beans, tofu, mushrooms, tea, green tea, scented tea, Tuo tea, Tieguanyin, honey, etc.; meat: duck, rabbit, goose, abalone, oysters, snails, crabs, pig kidneys.

2. The diet should be rich in vitality

Life must have three elements to survive. The first is the life ability and vitality of life. The second is the basic conditions of suitable environmental temperature and body temperature balance for life. The third is the nutrients needed to maintain vitality and achieve body movement. Only with these three conditions can life survive. Fresh vegetables and grains have vitality. Vegetables and grains that have been stored for too long have reduced or lost vitality. Prostate cancer patients should eat more fresh food and refuse overnight meals and pickled foods. Eat more pollen and meat products with higher vitality, nuts such as peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews, etc.

3. Eat a balanced diet

If conditions permit, you should eat more varieties of food. The more varieties you eat, the more balanced your nutrition will be. For example, our human body needs hundreds of amino acids, and the number of amino acids we take from food is far from enough. At present, we humans can produce about 20 kinds of amino acids. Our human body will also synthesize many kinds of amino acids to meet our own needs. There are also hundreds of other trace elements. A diversified diet will take in more nutrients. Patients should supplement high-protein diets, such as milk, soybeans, lean meat, pig's trotters, sea cucumbers, fish, animal livers, red dates, peanuts, walnuts, black fungus, carrots, red beans, etc. River crabs, black fish, beef, animal-cooked gelatin such as donkey skin gelatin (ejiao) and pig skin gelatin (roupi gelatin) can also help increase white blood cells. At the same time, you can also eat more five black foods, such as black sesame, black rice, black beans, black dates, etc. Chinese medicine believes that black can enter the kidney, and five black foods can nourish the kidney and fill the marrow, which helps to improve blood counts. .

Balanced nutrition is the main principle of the patient's diet, so we must pay attention to these aspects when caring for prostate cancer patients. At the same time, we must also pay attention to helping them get out of the shadow of the disease and let them maintain a good attitude at all times. This is very beneficial for the treatment of the disease and greatly increases the cure rate of the disease.